Platform Engineer - Terraform - Glasgow / Edinburgh Hybrid - 65K plus Bonus
Hybrid - Around 2 days per week in either their Central Edinburgh or Central Glasgow office (whichever's best for you)
About the Role
Lorien's longstanding client (who craft key data-oriented solutions to reduce time and headaches on their customers' side) is looking for a Platform Engineer based in Edinburgh or Glasgow who enjoys turning manual, repetitive infrastructure work into something automated, reliable, and easy for other teams to use.
Historically, most of the tooling built here has been used internally by the operations side of the business. That is changing. The direction now is towards a proper platform model: shared services, well-defined boundaries, and self-serve tools that other engineering teams can pick up and use without needing hand-holding. You would be joining at a good moment to help shape that shift, working on real infrastructure problems alongside people who already have strong standards and patterns in place.
This suits someone who wants to get deeper into cloud infrastructure, automation, and the "everything as code" way of working, without having to invent the playbook from scratch. There's an established way of doing things here, senior people to learn from, and genuine room to grow into bigger pieces of ownership.
They're a growing firm with great projects in the pipeline, happy to offer a range of incentives including bonuses, hybrid working, private healthcare, recognition rewards, professional development and ongoing upskilling avenues, and friendly people to work with (ask us, we've placed many of them ourselves over the years)
Main Responsibilities
- Splitting your time between hands-on build work and building good relationships with the teams who depend on the platform, including product engineering, operations, security, and compliance.
- Taking on well-defined chunks of platform work and owning them end to end, from build through to testing, documentation, and handover, rather than just writing code and moving on.
- Agreeing what "done" looks like before you start, including how it will be tested, how it can be rolled back, and what the team needs to know to support it afterwards.
- Writing and maintaining the pipelines and automation that keep cloud-based SaaS environments running smoothly, using infrastructure-as-code tools, DevOps pipelines, configuration automation, and scripting to cut down on manual effort.
- Building things that other people can reuse; templates, modules, and runbooks, rather than one-off fixes that only work once.
- Getting involved in design conversations and code reviews, learning from more experienced engineers, and passing on what you pick up to the rest of the team.
- Flagging risks, unknowns, and dependencies as early as possible, and coming with options rather than just problems.
- Keeping documentation current so that the next person (including future you) isn't left guessing.
Knowledge & Skills
- Practical experience with IaC (infrastructure as code) - Terraform / Terraform Cloud is a must-have
- Real, hands-on experience running production workloads in a major public cloud environment (this role is Azure/ Azure DevOps based, but they are open to folk crossing over from AWS / GCP backgrounds)
- Comfortable working with Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines, including code review and pull request workflows
- Able to automate and script using tools such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- A solid grasp of cloud networking and identity concepts, such as virtual networks, private connectivity, DNS, and access control
- Experience testing your own changes properly and working within a formal change process
- Able to put together the evidence needed to release safely, such as test results, rollback plans, and handovers
- Confident contributing ideas into technical designs, not just implementing someone else's, and even challenging where better options are available
- Clear written and verbal communicator, especially around progress, risk, and blockers
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, understanding their limits and checking their output
Desirable:
- Exposure to internal developer platforms / self-service tooling
- Interest in or experience with AI-assisted engineering beyond basic code suggestions
- Familiarity with configuration management tools and some exposure to monitoring, alerting, or incident response
- Awareness of security and compliance basics
- Experience with different cloud hosting models, whether that's managed database services, containers, or orchestration platforms
If you're looking to join a company that values its people, offers real career and technical growth, and works on impactful solutions used the world-over, apply now with your latest CV or reach out for a chat before this opportunity is snapped up.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.